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mother of the bride

Oh, I love my job! This was me yesterday after finishing work with a client. There should have been a video. I'd have been dancing the happy dance!
So here's the scenario: I have two sisters who have been clients for over two decades. One of the sisters has adult kids and now two of them have been clients for years.
One of them is getting married in three months and I'm helping with everything: dressing the bride-to-be for the wedding and rehearsal dinner, dressing the groom and his two little boys, dressing the mother and the aunt for both the wedding and the rehearsal dinner, dressing the brother who will be officiating at the garden wedding.
We've already helped the couple with the rings. Russ, my partner, is doing the photos and I'm taking the B roll photos at the ...

A dress for the mother-of-the bride can be tricky. We've all seen the poufs of mint, pink, and pale yellow—those dresses that age women by ten years? You’ve got an image in your mind right now, don’t you?
How not to look like those images was our challenge at the beginning of the month with a client I'll call Val.
[Client name and designers of the actual chosen dresses have been changed or omitted because the wedding is next month and I want to honor the intimacy of the special event for my client.]
Erin (my assistant) and I met our client at our planned rendezvous spot, Neiman-Marcus on Union Square. But all the way from the underground parking garage to the swinging doors of Neiman’s, I wasn't feelin' it.
Val was waiting for us at the beauty counter on the first floor. I ...